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'Silver Linings Playbook': Humanity in high-maintenance characters ★★★ 1/2
Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of...
Tags: Movies, Paul Thomas Anderson, Entertainment, Bradley Cooper, Mental Health
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Movies, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Festive Events, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Movies, Celebrities, Cloud Atlas (movie), Festive Events, Argo (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Movies, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bridesmaids (movie), Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'The Master' set for record-breaking opening weekend
Pop2itPaul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired awards contender grossed $242,127 from five theaters for a remarkable $48,425 per-screen average; "Resident Evil: Retribution" was No.1 with $8.4 million.... -
Joaquin Phoenix Disses Oscars, Calls It 'Utter Bull Sh*t'
@AndrewJRamosYou can bet that Joaquin Phoenix won't be attending this year's Oscars, or next years, or the Oscars after that. Apparently the actor doesn't think much of Hollywood's "biggest night." In a very candid chat with Interview Magazine, Phoenix rips the...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Cheese Corn, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Joaquin Phoenix
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Senator follows 'The Master': German distrib takes 'Late Quartet,' 'No Place on Earth'
VarietyMOSCOW -- German distributor Senator has added Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" to its distribution slate. The Weinstein Company production stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams in the 1950s-set story of a troubled WWII veteran...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Germany, Drama (genre), George Harrison, Amy Adams
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Reel Critics: 'Watch' is tension-filled drama
David Ayers wrote and directed "End of Watch." He also wrote the gritty cop drama "Training Day," which earned Denzel Washington an Oscar for best actor. This new film careens across the screen with all the non-stop action you expect from a serious film...
Tags: End of Watch (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Paul Thomas Anderson, Denzel Washington, Entertainment Events
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Q&A: Nick Waterhouse
RedEye special contributorNick Waterhouse might be a young man, but he has an old sound. On his debut album "Time's All Gone," the Los Angeles soul man comes across like a time traveler from the 1960s, belting out rowdy, R&B-tinged numbers about the women who've caused him hurt...Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Twitter, Inc., Movies, There Will Be Blood (movie), Music
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'The Master' is too much, but just right ★★★★
“I need to get the lighting right,” mutters the man with the camera in “The Master,” one of the few truly vital and unruly American films in recent years. The man is Freddie Quell, a World War II Navy veteran suffering from what...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Movies, Religion and Belief, James Jones, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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'The Master' review (****): An extraordinary brain workout
**** (out of four) It doesn't take an Olympic judge to recognize the degree of difficulty in Paul Thomas Anderson's “The Master,” either in the writer-director’s execution or the audience’s task of processing it. For anyone...
Tags: Movies, Scientology, There Will Be Blood (movie), Philip Seymour Hoffman, World War II (1939-1945)
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